337: Why You Should Strength Train (10 Benefits of Resistance Training)
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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In today's episode we go into why strength training is one of the greatest tools to help you lose body fat for so many different reasons, but we wanted to dive deeper here into other benefits of it and why everyone should be adding it into their routine.
Listed points:
1- Makes you stronger- Makes daily tasks easier, such as carrying heavy groceries/objects or running around w/ kids.
2- Improves heart health.
-strength-training exercise can decrease blood pressure, improve blood circulation by strengthening the heart and blood vessels + helps maintain a healthy bodyweight.
3- Burns calories efficiently
- First, building muscle increases your metabolic rate. Muscles are more metabolically efficient than fat mass, allowing you to burn more calories at rest.
Second, research shows that your metabolic rate is increased up to 72 hours after strength-training exercise. This means that you’re still burning additional calories hours and even days after your workout.
4- Decreases your risk of falls.
One review including 23,407 adults over the age of 60 showed a 34% reduction in falls among those who participated in a well-rounded exercise program that included balance exercises and resistance and functional training.
5- Makes your bones stronger.
-Weight-bearing exercises put temporary stress on your bones, sending a message to bone-building cells to take action and rebuild bones stronger. Having strong bones reduces your risk of osteoporosis, fractures, and falls, especially as you age.
6- Can help you appear leaner & improve appearance
As you build more muscle and lose fat, you will appear leaner.
This is because muscle is more dense than fat, meaning it takes up less space on your body pound for pound. Therefore, you may lose inches off of your waist even if you don’t see a change in the number on the scale.
7- Lowers your risk of injury.
Strength training helps improve the strength, range of motion, and mobility of your muscles, ligaments, and tendons. This can reinforce strength around major joints like your knees, hips, and ankles to provide additional protection against injury.
+Helps fix muscle imbalances.
8- Greater mobility & flexibility.
-Strength training increases joint range of motion (ROM), allowing for greater mobility and flexibility. Plus, those with weaker muscles tend to have lower ROM and flexibility
In fact, a recent review comparing stretching with strength training found they were equally effective at increasing ROM
9- Boosts your mood. Many studies showing it may reduce anxiety, and help improve mental health.
10- Boosts self esteem & challenge yourself mentally
It helps you overcome challenges, work toward a goal, and appreciate your body’s strength. In particular, it can increase your self-efficacy — the belief that you’re able to succeed at or perform a task — which can greatly improve your confidence.
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| 0:00.0 | Waka, what a what a. |
| 0:02.6 | Can't do it. |
| 0:03.7 | What's up, everyone. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Fit, Healthy, and Most of All, Happy Podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your coaching host, whereas some people would say you're coaching Josh, Josh, |
| 0:13.6 | and I'm coming at you today with another episode with Coach KG. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm in the house. |
| 0:19.6 | And we're going to be talking about why you should strength chain, 10 benefits that come alongside it. And I'm going to let Coach KG take it away because he said he's ready to spit some fire. So one of the biggest things like, and here's the thing, for me personally, I always feel like every person knows that they need to be strength training, all the benefits and stuff. And I think that's mainly because, like, I always do it. You know, Josh and myself four to five times a week, everyone around |
| 0:41.7 | me does it as well as all of our clients do it. Right. But, you know, as of recently, especially as we've |
| 0:46.2 | been doing some giveaways and been getting followers from people who, you know, just are kind of |
| 0:50.3 | into fitness, but not really like doing the strength training side of things. I'm like, ah, I'm like, I just need one great episode to share with every single person, all the benefits. But here's the thing. Even if you do it as well, I want you to also listen because this is going to be something that you can share with everybody else, but also even learn yourself like, oh my gosh. Because like, if I talk to someone and I'm like, hey, what are the benefits of strength training some of I'm like, oh, I think it's just good for getting stronger, but they don't realize how much |
| 1:14.1 | actually comes with it. And these are the 10 reasons why I truly believe it's the number one thing |
| 1:19.5 | in the world for just overall fitness and why everyone should be doing it. And with that being said, |
| 1:25.0 | we wanted to dive deeper into other specifics, |
| 1:27.9 | right? We all know that for fat loss and body composition, strength training is one of the greatest |
| 1:32.4 | things. But there's so many different reasons. But before the tips, we are looking for four more |
| 1:37.9 | people right now who do want to lose fat and achieve their best shape. If you're someone who doesn't |
| 1:42.8 | know how to put together a proper workout routine, do the nutritional side of things and just really know what it is that you should be doing to achieve the results you deserve. Send us a message on Instagram at Colossus Fit with the keyword fat loss. It can be in caps lock. It doesn't have to be in caps lock. Whatever works best for you. Send us that message message we are looking for four people i do assume |
| 2:01.1 | we'll probably get quite a few inquiries for this because you know once again our spots are limited |
| 2:05.7 | so we can do the best job best possible job to help you out send us that message but without further ado |
| 2:11.5 | here are the top 10 reasons you should be strength training and also the top 10 benefits so let's jump |
| 2:16.2 | right into it all right number one is a bit of an obvious one. You go, come on now, but bear with me. It's that it makes you stronger. And the reason I love this one is, yes, it's going to make you stronger with the movements you prime, your bench, your squat, your deadlift, your curls, all those great things. But what people tend to forget in a message i've got from my clients a lot recently |
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